Read this book and you’ll learn how to write nonfiction that’s definitely not a boring list of facts.  Eyewitness accounts, personal letters, mysterious happenings, and dramatic historical events are among the many ideas for subjects.  Susan Campbell Bartoletti, author of Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow is just one of the successful authors whose works are used as examples.

Meticulous research, story maps, and choosing more descriptive words, such as “whispered” or “shouted” to replace “said,” are a few of the ideas that will help students to make their nonfiction more interesting.

With lots of quotes, dramatic pictures, and author interviews, this is an attractive book that I believe will be popular with middle school writers.  There are 18 books in the “Write Your Own” series, and I’d like to see the volumes on writing myth, and graphic novels in our school library.